Scalable parallelization of harmonic balance simulation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1586, Issue , 1999, Pages 1055-1064

  Rhodes, David L ^a   Gerasoulis, Apostolos ^b  

^a US Army Communications and Electronics Command   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTED GRAPHS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

ACYCLIC GRAPHS; HARMONIC BALANCE SIMULATIONS; LINEAR CLUSTERING; NEW APPROACHES; PARALLEL COMPUTER; PARALLELIZATIONS; PARALLELIZING;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84957683674     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0097991     Document Type: Conference Paper

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